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Income inequality and poverty in front of and during the economic crisis: An empirical investigation for Germany 2002 - 2010
Falk, Jürgen - 2012
Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), both income inequality and poverty are considered for … calculations are correlated with the macroeconomic variables economic growth, inflation, and general unemployment. At the peak of … the crisis - in 2009 - inequality dropped, and it increased afterwards. Poverty was not affected very much by economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286914
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Income Inequality and Poverty in Front of and during the Economic Crisis: An Empirical Investigation for Germany 2002-2010
Faik, Jürgen - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), both income inequality and poverty are considered for … calculations are correlated with the macroeconomic variables economic growth, inflation, and general unemployment. At the peak of … the crisis - in 2009 - inequality dropped, and it increased afterwards. Poverty was not affected very much by economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128947
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Trade and Poverty in Latin America
Schejtman, Alexander; Berry, Albert; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - Inter-American Development Bank
Understanding the complex relations between trade integration and poverty reduction is now a priority for Latin American policymakers. The chapters of this book, penned by eminent authors with a long-standing record in the field, represent the current state of knowledge about trade and poverty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772398
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Revista Integración & Comercio: Año 5 : No. 15 : Septiembre-diciembre, 2001 Title: Integration & Trade Journal: Volume 5 : No. 15 : September-December, 2001
Dijck, Pitou van; Nicholls, Shelton; Nicholls, Garth; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
of the environment in development, income inequality and the economic conditions in Haiti. Throughout this project, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010672467
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Locus of control and low-wage mobility
Schnitzlein, Daniel D.; Stephani, Jens - 2013
We investigate whether non-cognitive skills - in particular Locus of Control - are important determinants of the labour market processes at the low-wage margin. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate dynamic multinomial logit models with random effects and investigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322841
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Distributional effects of a minimum wage in a welfare state: The case of Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2013
A popular argument for a federal minimum wage is that it will prevent in-work poverty and reduce income inequality. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332141
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Shifting taxes from labor to consumption: Efficient, but regressive?
Pestel, Nico; Sommer, Eric - 2013
on inequality and progressivity become substantially lower when payroll taxes are reduced, which is due to increased work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332150
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Economic growth evens-out happiness: Evidence from six surveys
Clark, Andrew E.; Fléche, Sarah; Senik, Claudia - 2014
In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality … has dropped in countries that have experienced income growth (but not in those that did not). Modern growth has reduced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334229
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Unfair pay and health
Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Menrath, Ingo; Verde, Pablo E. - 2016
This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. We use an integrated approach exploiting complementarities between controlled lab and representative panel data. In a simple principal-agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011558641
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The Marginal Utility of Income
Layard, Richard; Mayraz, Guy; Nickell, Stephen J. - 2007
inequality. We estimate this parameter using four large cross-sectional surveys of subjective happiness and two panel surveys …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600696